Happy Socks

How sustainable is Happy Socks?

This scree­ning has been done by Fai­rify on July 3^rd 2020

Happy Socks is a Swe­dish sock manu­fac­tu­rer that has mana­ged to make the dull sock somewhat fun again, but whether its socks are manu­fac­tu­red hap­pily, remains lar­gely unk­nown. The com­pany ack­now­led­ges to be very early in its sus­tai­na­bi­lity jour­ney and plans to publish its first report in 2020. Happy Socks has also adop­ted a tar­get to sour­ce cot­ton more sus­tai­nably by 2022 and men­tions that it already uses a per­cen­ta­ge of res­pon­sibly sour­ced cot­ton for its kids’ collec­tion. Howe­ver, it doesn’t pro­vi­de infor­ma­tion about this sour­cing policy or certifications.

Happy Socks is a mem­ber of Amfo­ri BSCI and has a Code of Con­duct to ensu­re social stan­dards, and strictly works with Oeko-Tex cer­ti­fied fac­to­ries to redu­ce che­mi­cals in its supply chain. But the com­pany hasn’t published a fac­tory list and doesn’t report on the fre­quency or results of social or envi­ron­men­tal audits. It remains unk­nown under what con­di­tions its pro­ducts are made.

It’s good that the com­pany ack­now­led­ges that it needs to work on its trans­pa­rency and has set some gui­de­li­nes to do so. But as it currently stands, the com­pany offers very limi­ted trans­pa­rency con­cer­ning its ope­ra­tions. When a brand doesn’t offer infor­ma­tion, the­re are seve­ral risks you take as a con­su­mer. For exam­ple, the cli­ma­te impact of that par­ti­cu­lar brand or pro­duct can be much higher com­pa­red to its industry peers. The com­pany might use cer­tain harm­ful che­mi­cals or the­re might be ani­mals or humans har­med for the manu­fac­tu­ring of its pro­ducts. For the­se reasons, we belie­ve that you should be awa­re of how pro­ducts are pro­du­ced and how a com­pany as a who­le ope­ra­tes in regard to our pillars. When there’s no trans­pa­rency, you are at risk of sup­por­ting some or more of the pre­viously men­tio­ned harm­ful conditions.

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